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<p n="822">Tuesday 18th. July 1738.</p>
<p n="823"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20206_geo115">Bethlem</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20206_occ498">Hospl</rs>
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.Clerk to be<lb></lb>
before Court an Accot. ye Hospll.<lb></lb>
real Estate & have much they<lb></lb>
have became to hold a<obscured></obscured>
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It being represented to this Court that Mr Newman (who has brought a<lb></lb>
Bill of Receive against the Governors of Bethlem Hospital to set a side a Decemr<lb></lb>
formerly made in a Cause relating to the Estate late of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n823-1">Edward Backham</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20206_occ499">Esqr</rs>
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. deced<lb></lb>
who by his Will desired the same to the said Hospital is preparing another<lb></lb>
Bill to discover what real Estates the said Hospital is possessed of and how<lb></lb>
much the said Governors have licence to hold in Mortmain for the benefit<lb></lb>
of the said HospitalIt is Ordered That the Clerk do lay before the-<lb></lb>
next Court after the Election Feast an Account of what real Estates belong to the<lb></lb>
said Hospital & to what Value & how much the Governor have licence to hold in<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="824"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n824-1">Penell Sarah</rs>
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& her Son<lb></lb>
The Churchwarden of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20206_geo116">St Brides</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
for<obscured></obscured>
ing them to<lb></lb>
be paid}</note>
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The Court being acquainted That <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n824-2">Sarah Pennell</rs>
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<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n824-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
a poor Woman (whose Husband<lb></lb>
was born in the Precinct of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20206_geo117">Bridewell Hospital</rs>
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) having been sent by the Lord Mayor<lb></lb>
to the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20206_geo118">parish of St Brides</rs>
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with her Male Child about five years old The Churchwardens<lb></lb>
of the said parish had attented the Comittee of this House on the 19th of April last<lb></lb>
who not being able to find that the Husband of the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n824-3">Sarah Pennell</rs>
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<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n824-3" type="surname" value="Pennell"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n824-3" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
had gained any<lb></lb>
other legal Settlement desired the sd Churchwardens to keep her and her said Child<lb></lb>
in their parish Work house at the Charge of this HospitalAnd that Mr John<lb></lb>
Linter one of the present Churchwardens had delivered in a Bill of £2.18..6<lb></lb>
for keeping them thirteen Weeks at 4s..6d P Week, And desired directions about<lb></lb>
Cloathing themIt is Ordered that the Steward do pay the and £2..18..6<lb></lb>
and desire the Churchwardens to provide such necessary Cloathing for the said<lb></lb>
Sarah Pennel and her Child as they do for their own poor, And that the Steward<lb></lb>
do pay for the same./.</p>
<p n="825"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">IncurablesBethlem<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of ye P Week for their<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
reduced to rft}</note>
<lb></lb>
This Court taking into Consideration the condition of that miserable and most<lb></lb>
compassionate part of the Charity under their Care The Incurables whose Friends<lb></lb>
and Relations have hitherto paid five Shillings & Week each towards their<lb></lb>
support and being informed by Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n825-1">Walter Pryse</rs>
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and Mr <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n825-2">Edward Dodd</rs>
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tree<lb></lb>
of the Auditors of the Accounts that from the late Contribution of several<lb></lb>
Charitable and will disposed persons they are of Opinion that it may be proper<lb></lb>
if this Court thinks fill to order a reduction of the payment for the Incurables<lb></lb>
from five Shillings P Week to two Shillings and six pence P Week and<lb></lb>
Mr. Tayler being called upon for his Opinion declared That the the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Re<obscured></obscured>
of the Hospital are not sufficient to defray the Annual expences yet<lb></lb>
be thought the increase of the Contingent benefactions since the Exertion of the<lb></lb>
Building for Incurables was a sufficient encouragement to make the Tryal of such<lb></lb>
a reduction for a yearIt is therefore Ordered N<obscured></obscured>
ne Contraticate that<lb></lb>
from Midsummer last to next Midsummer no more be taken towards the<lb></lb>
Maintenance of each Incurable Petient then two Shillings and six pence P Week./.</p>
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